VISTA Plus for MPE Administrator's Guide

Chapter 3
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VFILE Command
The VFILE command stores one or more non-spool files into a VISTA folder file for later access
by the VISTA online report viewer. If a file is not a fixed ASCII file or a spool file, it will be
ignored and a warning message will be displayed. For more information on using VISTA folders,
see the command in the following section.
VFILE operates on any ASCII file with a record size of no more than 512 bytes. The block size
must be less than 8,192 bytes. The default page parameters of 60 lines per page will be used for
page formatting unless overridden with the LPP or PRINTER keywords.
VFILE also provides a method of saving unlinked spool files. These files are spool files that do not
reside in the OUT.HPSPOOL group.
Note. When using VDIR to display a folder, disk files do not show job numbers. Also,
the Job Name is the group where the file originally existed.
VFILE Command Syntax
O> VFILE fileset[,TEMP];FILE=[filename]
[;DESC=“description” ]
[;LIMIT=files,sectors]
[;LPP=lines ]
[;PRINTER=printername]
[;APPEND ]
[;CCTL ]
[;FFSCAN[=”ffdelim”] ]
[;INDEX ]
[;PURGE ]
[;RELEASE ]
Note. This command can be abbreviated to VF.